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Provision and Manage CloudByte Volumes with OpenStack Cinder

'Net Features : wm-webhosting — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The CloudByte cloud storage service, which was the first to provide guaranteed quality of service (QoS) to every application from a shared storage platform, just announced a new major integration with Cinder , the OpenStack block storage project. CloudByte also developed a driver for the Cinder framework, known as ElastiStor, to enable service providers to provision and manage QoS-aware CloudByte storage volumes from OpenStack clients and the project’s API. This means that service providers on the OpenStack platform can create, take snapshots of and manage CloudByte storage volumes using either the Cinder API or the OpenStack Horizon client. These volumes can then be configured to meet the user’s capacity and IOPS needs. With on-demand performance from CloudByte, OpenStack users will now be able to build solutions that an more effectively compete with Amazon EBS. “Unlike legacy storage solutions, ElastiStor is architected for today’s cloud environments and allows cloud service providers to host performance-sensitive applications without creating any dedicated storage silos” explains CloudByte CTO, Felix Xavier....(read more)

Remote Support for Private Clouds from RackSpace

'Net Features : wm-webhosting — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:15:00 GMT

The open cloud company Rackspace ranks high among major players like Amazon and Windows in the cloud computing industry, which is an impressive feat. But the company isn’t about to rest on its laurels, as it just announced a slew of new features and enhanced support offerings for its Rackspace Private Cloud Software. Rackspace just launched Private Cloud Software in August and already thousands of businesses and organizations from more than 125 different countries have downloaded it. These new additions have been collectively named “Alamo” and incorporate “Folsom,” the latest release of the OpenStack Cloud Software platform that came out in September and included nearly 200 new features. This is the same platform that powers the Rackspace Cloud. Alamo has allowed Rackspace to extend its service portfolio for the Rackspace Private Cloud, particularly with a new support level – Core Software Support – that includes remote access support for the Private Cloud Software stack all day long and every day of the year. Core Software Support will allow the cloud company’s engineers login to a customer’s private cloud environment to install, configure, patch and troubleshoot, as needed. Some other new features are highly scalable Block Storage that turns external storage into an additional storage volume and Object Storage powered by OpenStack Swift that allows customers to create “massively scalable” storage resource pools...(read more)

Cloudscaling Introduces Open System for Cloud Apps

Michael Garrity — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:51:00 GMT

Cloud-ready applications provider Cloudscaling is greatly expanding its services by offering the first ever open cloud system intentionally designed to run cloud-based apps.

The new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, known as the Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS), is based on OpenStack's open source cloud project, so it is able to leverage the company's expertise from various software deployments. This helps OCS offer private and public clouds the same cost, performance and scalability benefits of Amazon Web Services, while eliminating vendor lock-in, proprietary protocols, closed hardware platforms and excessive enterprise liscensing fees.

Cloudscaling OCS is made up of three primary elements. The first is Open Cloud OS, an OpenStack-powered operating system for production cloud deployments that extends OpenStack software and offers management, scalability, security and performance.

Next is Hardware Blueprints, which provides tested and proven depolyment configurations for computing, storage and networking equipment that will help companies meet specific price, performance and availability targets.

Finally, OCS offers CloudBlocks, integrating Open Cloud OS software with Hardware Blueprints to define modular cloud building blocks.

OCS is a big step for Cloudscaling in pushing the use of cloud-ready apps, which are more elastic than traditional applicationss and can support higher peak loads.

Piston Cloud Releases OpenStack-Based OS

Michael Garrity — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:43:00 GMT

Piston Cloud Computing, a developer for the OpenStack OS, recently announced the general availability of its enterprise-ready operating system, pentOS.

The new operating system will be the first OpenStack-based OS to focus on both security and the operation of enterprise private clouds, while utilizing Piston's Null Tier Architecture to combine storage, computing and networking to deliver extensive scalability to businesses.

pentOS is also the first operating system to implement CloudAudit, an open security standard for cloud and virtualized environments.

Operating on a customized version of Linux, pentOS will deliver a 99.999 percent automated, hands-free software to servers and switches. And it's hardware vendor agnostic, meaning users won't be burdened by having to use a single proprietary architecture. Adding to its flexibility is interoperability with all other OpenStack public cloud environments, which includes Amazon, Dell, Rackspace and AT&T.

Piston claims that the operating system only takes about 10 minutes to install and that it will provide security updates automatically through a subscription service.

Pricing for the pentOS starts at $3500 per server.